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And its fundraising bid, working with Itison, as well as its Sleep In the Park held in Edinburgh earlier this month helped raise the seven-figure sum.

A Social Bite spokesman said: "Thank you so much to every single person that slept out or donated a Christmas dinner and raised so much money for Scotland's homeless people.

"You have simultaneously registered your disgust at the system that results in people becoming homeless in such large numbers, as well as your love and affection for people with no place to call a home of their own.

"The job over the next 12 months is to use this money to get a minimum of 500 people off the streets and temporary shelters into a proper home with a funded support resource, and in doing so help to restructure our response to homelessness for the long term.